{"product_id":"legendborn-39076","title":"Legendborn","description":"\u003cp\u003eLegendborn is an African-American modern fantasy novel, based on the tales of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus: A flying demon feeding on human energies. As a result she learns of an ancient secret society of Legendborn students who hunt the demons down and a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a Merlin and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree's memory of everything she saw.   The mage's failure unlocks Bree's own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there's more to her mother's death than what's on the police report, she'll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates.    She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society's secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur's knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she'll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight. The novel would allow for an interesting investigation of intertextuality and how old legends are being used in contemporary stories to highlight today's issues. Would pair well with A Song Below Water.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nova Scotia School Book Bureau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43665385291836,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/3677\/6508\/files\/9781534441613.jpg?v=1762989989","url":"https:\/\/nssbb.ednet.ns.ca\/fr\/products\/legendborn-39076","provider":"Nova Scotia School Book Bureau","version":"1.0","type":"link"}